AESOP’S FOIBLE
A Marianne Moore Tailgater Bluesanelle.
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing,
Smack-dab in the middle of a thing,
Take off one’s clothes, and then begin to sing.
You get up in the morning, put on your clothes,
Get out of bed and look around for clothes --
It’s human nature to stand in the middle of a thing,
A morning or a bedroom in a house
Where probably you live, a normal house,
Put on your clothes before you start to sing,
And maybe have some breakfast, toast at least,
A piece of buttered toast at the very least.
It’s human nature to stand in the middle of a thing,
Look around and say, “To Hell with it,
That’s quite enough, to Hell with all of it,”
Take off one’s clothes, and then begin to sing
A song you just make up right then and there,
An off-the cuff aubade right then and there --
Take off one’s clothes and then begin to sing
Smack-dab in the middle of a thing,
Copyright © 2013 by Lewis Turco, all rights reserved.
An epitaph on Marianne Moore may be found here:
Wesli Court’s Epitaphs
for the Poets, by Lewis Turco,
Baltimore, MD: BrickHouse Books, (www.BrickHouseBooks.com) 2012, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-938144-01-1.
Critical material on Marianne Moore may be found here:
Visions and Revisions of American Poetry by Lewis Putnam Turco, Fayetteville, AK: University of Arkansas Press, 1986, 178 pp., ISBN 0938626493, cloth; ISBN 0938626507, paper. Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society of America.
